‘A Sri Lankan woman is facing decapitation with a sword on a witchcraft charge in Saudi Arabia. A Saudi man said that his 13-year-old daughter suddenly started acting strange after seeing a Sri Lankan woman in a shopping mall. The Sri Lankan woman was accused of casting a spell on his daughter. Police arrested the woman. The punishment for practicing witchcraft and sorcery in Saudi Arabia is, beheading. Two persons were beheaded on witchcraft charges last year. Sharia, or Islamic law, is the basis of the legal system in Saudi Arabia The number of execution is increasing in the country. In 2010, 26 people were executed. In 2011, it was 76.’
Watch how people get beheaded in public places. Eight Bangladeshi men were beheaded last year. They say Allahu Akbar, Allah is Great loudly while beheading. An Indonesian maid was beheaded not long ago. They enjoy beheading people with a sharp sword. Hateful, revengeful, venomous god-lovers are not prevented from continuing their unethical and inhuman practices of Islam. We witness cruelty everyday but we shut our mouth because it is not politically correct to oppose Islamic barbarism!
Ophelia Benson says
Oh good god!! She was just in a shopping mall minding her own business…
Arrgh.
I’ve watched some of those videos in the past.
Rilian says
I’m amazed that people really believe in magic.
Robert B. says
And so we see why the law (like so many other things) needs skepticism and truth, not religion and prejudice. What better argument could there be?
Alyson Miers says
So…if there’s someone you want to get rid of, all you have to do is get your child to act weird around her, accuse her of witchcraft, and voila? Is that it?
Ophelia Benson says
Even easier than that – all you have to do is say your daughter was acting weird. (If you’re a man. I suspect the rules are different if you’re stupid enough to be a woman.)
Bernard Hurley says
If you’re a woman you might get your head chopped off!
Alyson Miers says
If the person you want to accuse is a man, is it quite that easy?
Markr1957 says
As long as the man being accused is not a Muslim an accusation from a Muslim would be accepted as though it was the truth, and acted on accordingly – unless the man happened to be from a powerful nation and could get his consulate or embassy to act quickly in his defense.
Stevarious says
Woman to be brutally murdered for imaginary crime…
Religion of peace my ass.
seditiosus says
Just once, I’d like to read something about Saudi Arabia that doesn’t make me fear for the future of humanity. Come on Saudi Arabia, surely that’s not too much to ask?
One Furious Llama says
@seditiosus for Islam, it is too much to ask.
truthboy says
Fuck those bustd! God is nthing! All god is just a fuckin shit! Fuck Allah! Fuck Crist! Fuck Krishna…
interrobang says
I don’t know who you think is stopping you from opposing “Islamic barbarism,” because it seems like all I hear every damn day is an unending flow of “All Muslims are evil because…”, which oddly enough, never seems to apply collectively to the members of any of the other Abrahamic religions, no matter what barbaric weirdnesses subsets of their membership get up to. In fact, I’d say it’s practically politically correct to hate on Muslims collectively, and anybody who dares to point out that Sharia means different things in different places is likely to get stepped on.
But YMMV. Go ahead, keep on hating on all Muslims everywhere because they’re Muslim; all the kewl kids are doing it.
Which is not to say that I disagree with the point that Saudi Arabia is a brutal, barbaric place, but there are lots of other brutal, barbaric places which somehow manage to be so without Islam…and I also wonder how much preIslamic traditions figure into things Westerners consider brutal and barbaric and also associated with Islam, like, say FGM (which is practiced in northern Africa among lots of cultures, including Christians, and predates Islam’s existence there, and seems to have gotten exported from there to the Middle East by the Muslims).
Culture is horrible at times, and you can use any religion to justify any barbaric cultural practice you like.
Alyson Miers says
Oh, what is that I don’t even.
Stevarious says
Hmmm… The article I read denounced the sharia law that requires a woman to be beheaded for an imaginary crime. I just scrolled back up and I can’t see a thing that suggests that ALL Muslims are responsible for this crime, or that such horrifying crimes are unique to Islam.
But you go ahead and pretend that was what the article was about. It seems to make you feel better.
Martyn N Hughes says
@ interrobang;
It’s not muslims we oppose. It’s Islam or Islamism in particular.
You didn’t read the article properly. This piece was about Saudi Arabia’s ‘brand’ of Sharia.
You can’t defend it. Sharia is what Sharia does. And we’ve all seen what it does.